Abandoning our Kurdish allies in northern Syria is a distraction. It’s certainly a shamelessly horrible way to treat an ally but at this moment in time, Trump really does not give a shit. His brazen betrayal of the Kurds is having exactly the effect he intended. We’re distracted from impeachment. It deflects our attention from the host of other scandals and sucks up time and energy that the public would otherwise be using to focus more intently on Trump’s misdeeds in Ukraine and elsewhere.
Exiting Syria has Trump has is clearly a destructively stupid and callous action, but it’s working — we can’t not talk about it, and every minute spent outraged by Trump’s betrayal of the Syrian Kurds — is a minute not spent on discussions and analysis that could be moving public opinion toward impeachment.
The Trumptactics going forward will be the D’s:
deny - (the call was perfect — nothing to see there)
distract - (what about Biden, screw the Kurds and if that genocide only holds pubic attention for a few days, then there is always the possibility to start a big boy shooting war with Iran or North Korea)
discredit - (the whistleblower only had second hand knowledge, they are politically biased, it’s another witch hunt)
discount - (impeach me for that ! — it was a big nothing that call to Zelensky!!!!!)
deflect - only made that call because Rick Perry asked me to and Pence he was in on it too.
delay - say you have nothing to hide and then stonewall and refuse to respond to each and every congressional demand for testimony or documents.
deceive - provide a carefully edited summary of the Zelensky call and then claim that it is ‘a word for word transcript’ so we focus on what we’re given rather than whatever else was said during the missing 10 -18 minutes of that call
divide — divide the attention of critics and supporters alike — create confusion, stir the pot.
dulcify - he’ll do something sweet and completely out of character - soon- in an effort to appear more human. Think deferred action for early childhood arrivals DACA.
denigrate - tar your adversaries as surreal evil versions of the 7 dwarfs — sleepy, shifty, dopy …..
destroy - so many options — destroying incriminating documents comes to mind — like the real complete unedited transcript of that 30 minute long July 25th phone call with Ukrainian president V. Zelensky — the one secreted away on a code word server at the White House.
Each day on, until the pResident resigns or is impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate (less far fetched than you might think once the evidence is out in the open), — watch Trump use these D - tactics to avoid taking the maximum damage he should be receiving — all in an effort to run out the clock on impeachment — and try to steal another election.
There are only a few possible outcomes. Trump is going to go to prison if he does not get reelected (or finagle a pardon from his successor ).
— the stakes are high enough that he’ll do just about anything.
Horizontal pinstripes or orange jumpsuits won’t do a thing for his hair or complexion, even if the prison he is sent to still uses those incandescent light bulbs he likes so much www.cnn.com/....